Iran: 6000 people die each year, in Tehran, of air contamination

Tehran central city

Vahid Hosseini, director of Tehran’s state company for Air Quality Control has confessed of 6000 deaths, each year, due to air contamination in Tehran.

In an interview with the state TV on Feb. 13, Hosseini said,” According to the statistics given by the Health Department, air contamination takes 5 to 6000 lives each year. Laws that control the decline of air pollution are not observed”.

Director of Tehran’s state company for Air Quality Control, added, “For years no budget has been allocated for the development of the city’s public transportation. For the past six years not even one new bus, upon national budget, has entered Tehran. Nothing in terms of decline of air pollution will happen if the same treatment is continued”.